Vindicator file photo/ Sept. 1, 1995 | Twenty-five years ago, Poland toddler Kaitlyn Rubesa, 13 months, made a new friend at the petting zoo at the 1995 Canfield Fair.  
 
September 2
 
1995: A star-studded crowd of thousands watch as the ribbon is cut on the $92-million Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.  Joining Mayor Michael White to cut the ribbon are Little Richard and Yoko Ono.  
 
A study by the Penn-Northwest Development Corp. says that if the Grove City Airport were converted into an industrial park it could produce $150 million in business activity and create 900 jobs.
 
Dr. Janice Elias of Poland, chair of the Human Ecology Department at Youngstown State University, is named assistant provost, succeeding Cynthia Anderson, who has been named vice president for student affairs. 
 
1980: Hal Sutton of Shreveport, La., a 22-year-old student at Centenary College, wins the 80th annual U.S. Amateur Golf Championship, defeating Warren's  Bobby Lewis, a member of the Trumbull Country Club. 
 
Rain dampens attendance on the last days of the 134th Canfield Fair, with attendance of 130,168 on Sunday, 28,255 less than a year earlier, and 83,976 on Monday, down from 99,009 in 1979.
 
Marilyn Van Derbur, a former Miss America who was recently named Outstanding Woman Speaker in America, gives the keynote address at the in-service program for Trumbull County teachers at the Packard Music Hall. 
 
1970: Two "vigilantes" who captured a pair of would-be thieves in a southeast Warren parking lot are told by responding officers to leave law enforcement to the police department.
 
More than 300 people turned out at a meeting at the Mahoning Country Club to support the location of a new state medical school in Youngstown.
 
Damage is estimated at $500,000 in a two-alarm fire at the McNicholas Storage Co., 1028 W. Rayen Avenue, in Youngstown. 
 
1945: The William Swanston-Christ Mission camp and farm on Leffingwell Road brings another season to a close, having hosted 279 pre-tubercular and underprivileged boys and girls.
 
The Vindicator's Rotogravure section takes a tour of the elegant Perkins Mansion on Mahoning Avenue which now serves as Warren's City Hall. 
 
With the signing of the surrender on the Missouri, area churches plan prayer services to mark what has been designated V-J Day by President Truman.